Times they are changing …..

Mumbai Mirror has a nostalgic and insightful article by Mayak Shekhar on the changing face of Patna. He ruminates over his visit to Patna and the new changing face of the state and how the state has got its act together despite facing the ignominy of backwardness and crime.

Waking up Sunday morning to screaming newspaper headlines about a delicately balanced hope of what Bihar could achieve from Anand Mahindra’s visit (he’s the new hero to Patna; Ratan Tata had left the week before), told me that things may actually be changing here, slowly though. A classified ad on the inside pages, for a forthcoming Rakhee Sawant concert, told me that change may not be as slow.

Over the weekend, we’d walked around a mall; been to bars, early evenings, with women friends;been cheated by cabbies and ‘chanawalas’… And I had heard my friends from Bangalore, Delhi and Bombay suggest, “It’s much better than we thought it would be.” If it gets better, we all know how that can save Mumbai or Delhi of a lot of urban burden too.

Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the call ,Don’t stand in the doorwayDon’t block up the hallFor he that gets hurtWill be he who has stalledThere’s a battle outsideAnd it is ragin’.It’ll soon shake your windowsAnd rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin’.